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. 2020 Oct 22;53(2):549–557. doi: 10.4143/crt.2020.802

Table 2.

Hospital stay and postoperativecomplications

Characteristic Total (n=5,065) RS (n=315) LS (n=3,248) OS (n=1,503) p-value p-value
RS vs. LS RS vs. OS LS vs. OS
Length of stay (mean±SD) 11.3±7.4 10.2±6.1 10.3±7.1 13.8±7.8 < 0.001 1.000 < 0.001 < 0.001
Post-operative complications 483 (9.5) 21 (6.8) 240 (7.4) 222 (14.8) < 0.001 0.690 < 0.001 < 0.001
  Injury to bladder 4 (0.1) 0 2 (0.1) 2 (0.1) 0.651 0.678 0.538 0.445
  Injury to ureter 4 (0.1) 0 4 (0.1) 1 (0.0) 0.597 0.543 0.728 0.404
  Injury to colon and rectum 0 0 0 0
  Injury to blood vessels 3 (0.1) 0 1 (0.0) 2 (0.1) 0.276 0.768 0.497 0.136
  Acute kidney failure 22 (0.4) 2 (0.5) 13 (0.4) 8 (0.5) 0.851 0.766 0.995 0.594
 Bladder disorder 19 (0.4) 2 (0.5) 9 (0.3) 9 (0.6) 0.246 0.414 0.919 0.103
  Vesicovaginal fistula 7 (0.1) 1 (0.3) 4 (0.1) 2 (0.1) 0.776 0.481 0.648 0.766
  Rectovaginal fistula 1 (0.0) 0 1 (0.0) 0 0.771 0.764 0.512
  Atelectasis 2 (0.0) 0 1 (0.0) 1 (0.0) 0.935 0.760 0.725 0.863
  Vaginal vault prolapse 2 (0.0) 0 1 (0.0) 1 (0.0) 0.935 0.760 0.725 0.863
  Disorders of lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes 263 (5.2) 15 (4.7) 124 (3.8) 125 (8.3) < 0.001 0.430 0.030 < 0.001
  Disruption of operation wound 75 (1.5) 2 (0.6) 37 (1.1) 36 (2.4) 0.001 0.366 0.039 0.001
  Sepsis 3 (0.1) 0 1 (0.0) 2 (0.1) 0.381 0.761 0.526 0.201
  Pneumonia 26 (0.5) 1 (0.2) 15 (0.5) 10 (0.7) 0.428 0.447 0.282 0.347
  Embolism 36 (0.7) 0 19 (0.6) 16 (1.1) 0.045 0.173 0.062 0.058
  Intestinal obstruction 35 (0.7) 0 14 (0.4) 21 (1.4) < 0.001 0.239 0.035 0.000
  Hematoma 10 (0.2) 0 4 (0.1) 6 (0.4) 0.156 0.517 0.277 0.091
  Post-traumatic wound infection 12 (0.2) 0 7 (0.2) 5 (0.3) 0.504 0.415 0.311 0.457

Values are presented as number (%) unless otherwise indicated. LS, laparoscopic surgery; OS, open surgery; RS, robotic surgery; SD, standard deviation.